Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami's queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capo shows the multifaceted ways gender

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when he began photographing bodybuilders in Los Angeles

the space between the coasts

he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants

LUIS VENEGAS IS CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world

a polite horror separate from the horror of death

and the literary salons of pre-war London

In chronicling Miami's queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940

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regardless of gender or sexual preference

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